Thermodynamic theory of voting and EU elections
arXiv:2607.15119
2026
Architecture
1 ideas extracted · analyzed Aug 30, 2026
What the math gives to ML
The paper's transferable mechanism is constraint-driven condensation: maximizing entropy for coupled modes while conserving total occupation (probability norm) and mean energy produces a Rayleigh-Jeans distribution, with excess mass accumulating in the lowest-energy mode when excited modes cannot absorb the conserved mass. This can be transferred to mixture-of-experts routing by treating expert loads as occupations and assigning each expert a measurable energy such as latency, loss, or specialization cost. A temperature and chemical-potential controller then creates a tunable transition between diversified routing and deliberate expert condensation. The sharp prediction is that router occupancies should fit the Rayleigh-Jeans law and develop a low-energy condensate when the imposed mass and energy constraints cross a calculable threshold.
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2026
Replace a standard softmax MoE router with a thermodynamic router whose expert occupations maximize entropy subject to a prescribed total routing mass and mean routing energy. At high temperature, traffic is distributed across many experts; as temperature decreases or the energy budget tightens, traffic undergoes a predictable condensation transition in which excess load moves to the lowest-energy expert or expert group. This supplies an explicit control knob for adaptive specialization instead…
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